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My favorite cold weather fragance is the "Wintersweet" Chimonanthus praecox var.
luteus. I wanted to share a couple of pictures of the large one in my yard. It has brought many years of landscape filling smells that are similar to the banana Kits taffy I ate as a child.
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I'm not aware of any particular soil preference, Jessica. But I'd check with a good local ...»
Just return from the Raley family's annual trip to Williamsburg, Va.
Members of the my family and I have made the Christmas trek every year since the 1950s. These are examples of some of the beautiful wreaths along Duke of Gloucester Street in the
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These are just four of the 600 poinsettias in a greenhouse at Campbell Road Nursery in Raleigh.
Phil Campbell's brother grows them in King, NC. There is an article in the December edition of Our State Magazine about his operation.
I was visiting a friend's nursery today near Raleigh.
Nelsa Cox owns the Garden Hut in Fuquay Varina and had lots of one of my favorite Camellia sasanquas, the "yuletide, " I enjoy this beautiful red bloom during the holiday season as much
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I wanted to share these pictures of swamp helianthus in my church memorial garden.
You can see them for a hundred yards away. Some nice fall color.
Wanted to share this beautiful ginger lily with you.
It is Hedychium coronarium and came from Tony Avent's Plant Delights Nursery near Raleigh. This gorgeous lily started blooming over the weekend. It not only blooms in the fall, but its fragrance is like honey suckle. With the frangrant osmanthus and plants like this filling the landscape with wonderful scents in our area, I'm trying to spend as extra amount of time out of doors.
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Plant Delights is the bomb!! Never read a nursery catalog from cover to cover but Tony knows ...»
I wanted to share a few pictures of our broadcast at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh, the home of our
Governor. It was built in the eighteen hundreds. We were invited to do our show there by Governor Perdue and joined by the mansion curator Gerald Adams.





